Being a plain discovery of, or, what men are worth for Eternity, and how it is likely to fare with them in the eternal world. Here is also a clear and large Discovery of the several rounds in Jacob's Ladder, that no hypocrite under Heaven can climb up to. Here are also such close, piercing, distinguishing and discovering evidences as will reach and suit those Christians who are highest in grace and spiritual enjoyments; and here are many evidences, which are suited to the capacities and experiences of the weakest Christians in Christ's school: And here Christians may see as in a mirror, what...

This little piece had been sooner in your hands, but that my being in the country, and some other important business that has lain hard upon my hands, has prevented it until now. I have read of a certain painter, who, being to express the sorrow of a bereaved father, thought it best to present him with his face covered, that so he might have that grief to be imagined by them, which he found himself unable to set out to the full. I know I am not able to paint out your great grief and sorrow for the loss of such a wife, of such a child, of such a sister, etc., and I could wish that this piece,...

To all young people, especially those who begin to turn their faces towards Zion. There are many things in this treatise that are of use to all, and several things of importance-which are not every day preached nor read. I have made it as pleasurable as time would permit, that so it might be the more profitable to the reader, and that I might the better take the young man by a holy craft; which is a high point of heavenly wisdom, there being no wisdom to that of winning of souls, 2 Cor. 12:16; Proverbs 11:13. I shall now follow this poor piece with my weak prayers, that it may be so blessed...